Agriculture- Matt Hamilton

4. cropping- a second crop is planted after the first has been harvest
5. agriculture- term used to describe large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases,large mechanized equipment
7. agriculture- expenditure of much labor and capital on a piece of land to increase its productivity
9. means any technological application that uses biological systems,living organisms, or derivatives
11. the cultivation of domesticated crops and the raising of domesticated animals
12. agricultural revolution- Dating back 10,000 years, it achieved plant domestication and animal domestication
13. rotation- The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
14. agriculture- use of little labor and capital to increase agricultural productivity

1. herding/Pastoralism- the continual movement of livestock in search of forage for animals
2. Characteristic of farmers of their way of life
3. strategies- the unique way in each culture uses its particular physical environment
6. highly mechanized, large scale farming
8. The cultivation of aquatic organisms (as fish or shellfish) especially for food
10. farm- regards a system of agriculture organization whereas farm laborers are not compensated via wages
11. domestication- animals kept for some utilitarian purpose whose breeding is controlled by humans